Neurology® Podcast

1) Lamotrigine and aseptic meningitis and 2) Topic of the month: Recent book, Your medical mind: How to decide what is right for you. This podcast for the Neurology Journal begins and closes with Dr. Robert Gross, Editor-in-Chief, briefly discussing highlighted articles from the print issue of Neurology. In the second segment Dr. Michaela Tegan Chatman interviews Drs. Simms, Kortepeter and Avigan about their paper on lamotrigine and aseptic meningitis. Dr. Stacey Clardy is reading our e-Pearl of the week about pregnancy on the course of neuromyelitis optica. In the next part of the podcast Dr. Ted Burns interviews Drs. Groopman and Hartzband about risk-benefit ratios. Next week, Dr. Burns will interview Drs Groopman and Hartzband about additional topics from their books and columns not previously discussed. The participants had nothing to disclose except Drs. Simms, Kortepeter, Avigan, Clardy, Burns, Groopman and Hartzband.Dr. Simms is employed at U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Kortepeter is employed